Stock Exchanges - Hubs of Modernity

From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam.Created by: PICRYLDated: 2016

A stock exchange or bourse is a place where brokers and traders can buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities, It's history begins with Dutch East India Company, and icludes Amsterdam, Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong.

Print shows a view of the Tuileries Palace with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and a large plaza with pedestrians and carriages in the foreground.
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Senators holding papers "patronage," "sold out," and "New York quotations," with T.C. Platt handcuffed to man on left, who is handing "orders of the boss" to Chester Arthur.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 9, 1881 April 13... more

This image has been taken from scan 000101 from "A Ramble round France. [With illustrations.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's... more

Photo shows the Kloveniersburgwal canal and De Waag or weighing house, originally a gate in the city walls and now a subway station, Nieuwmarkt. (Source: Flickr Commons project and Wikipedia, 2009)
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Photo shows De Waag or weighing house at right, originally a gate in the city walls and now a subway station, Nieuwmarkt. (Source: Flickr Commons project and Wikipedia, 2009)
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Illustration shows a large group of citizens reading the latest news of a stock boom and rushing off to the stockbroker to purchase the hot commodity; in the background, the broker is seen paying off the newspa... more

Illustration shows J. Pierpont Morgan as a strong man at a circus, attempting to inflate a balloon labeled "Steel Stock" with a pump labeled "Enormous Earnings", in the background is a crowd of people, some hol... more

Illustration shows Uncle Sam using a magnifying glass to see in his left hand a diminutive man labeled "Rumor Monger" yelling "Panic, National Disaster, Failures, [and] Ruin" into a megaphone labeled "Wall Str.... more

Illustration shows Nelson Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller as dark-skinned men wearing skirts labeled "Gold Dust"; Aldrich is standing on top of a replica of a building labeled "Stock Exchange" and holding up a ... more

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon of scenes about the activities of stock exchanges and gambling on sporting events on ocean liners once they are equipped for wireless transmission.
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Illustration shows a throng of people on Wall Street rushing to purchase stocks from trading houses that offer various amounts of green or pink trading stamps.
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Illus. in: Puck, v. 62, no. 1601 ... more

Illustration shows the Democratic donkey labeled "Democratic Party" sitting among papers that state "The Trusts are to Blame", "Harriman is to Blame", "Wall Street is to Blame", "High Finance is to Blame", "Roo... more

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Wall Street" as a nursery rhyme figure, possibly Little Bo Peep; she has pulled all the paper petals labeled "Tight Money" and "Easy Money" off a paper flower, the center of ... more

"The lambs money to burn club" on sign; "gas rebate" on slips of paper; "cashier, consolidated gas" on window.
(DLC/PP-1932:0042).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
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